For 3hattrio, the Southwest desert has an almost spiritual significance. Rooted in the natural world of their sacred homeland near Zion National Park in Utah, they say that their genre is “American desert music,” a simple idea for a complex sound. The music 3hattrio are making sounds more like extended landscapes of sound, bare mesas that ring with electronic echoes of acoustic instruments, twisting and turning as the wind shifts. 3hattrio mix the routine with the unusual, fusing American folk music with outsider elements like autotune, psychedelia, and minimalism. It’s a wildly unusual sound, but the product of three very different musicians coming together to form something new. |
“Creating an atmosphere of big mystery and weirdness without resorting to sonic clichés of the West.” John Adamian, RELIX Magazine
“Fascinatingly original” Magnet Magazine
“It’s a compelling, hypnotizing, uncompromising album that naturally pushes boundaries to create an idiosyncratic genre this band can rightly call its own.” American Songwriter Magazine
“Their most adventurous and eclectic work yet - long may they reign.”
Mike Davies for Folk Radio UK
“Fascinatingly original” Magnet Magazine
“It’s a compelling, hypnotizing, uncompromising album that naturally pushes boundaries to create an idiosyncratic genre this band can rightly call its own.” American Songwriter Magazine
“Their most adventurous and eclectic work yet - long may they reign.”
Mike Davies for Folk Radio UK